This is the story of our WHY

One of the highlights every year of the Sport Movement Skill Conference is the VIP Social held on Friday night. This year’s group (image excludes a few people who were there earlier) got together to break bread & talk shop in a more relaxed, informal fashion. Though every SMSC is exhausting & contains very long days, it is the situations like these, containing moments of fellowship & interaction, that help make it all worthwhile. Also special S/O to @mke_mma & @SBGAthens for a fun trip deep down the rabbit hole around a Q I’ve been wrestling with daily related to relevant, specifying informational variables across MMA & football & how we can effectively facilitate an athlete’s coupling to them in training (based on the speeds & intensity the athlete executes at).

Great meeting up with @tony_villani_ and Jeff Moyer of @dcsportstraining

Told you over & over again that the Sport Movement Skill Conference does it differently than any other coaching education event does it! #SMSC26 @EMERGENTMVMT

Upper St. Clair’s Sadie Tomczyk repeats as WPIAL Class 3A champion in the 100. Winning time of 12.02.

Showdown at the Sport Movement Skill Conference! What happens when theories & practice perspectives collide?! Come find out on June 5-6th in Minnesota at #SMSC26!

What if two coaches completely disagreed on how to develop skill? At most clinics, you hear one perspective. At the Sport Movement Skill Conference 2026… You’ll hear multiple—and watch them clash. Because progress comes from friction. eventbrite.com/e/sport-movem…

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." – Albert Einstein

Feeling like Lloyd Christmas about this Artemis II mission

Light aerobic training, done with proper sequencing and progressions, helps preserve and support power. Focusing on bad programs that do too much of a good thing is just a bad argument. Countless programs scoff at aerobic work to befriend athletes. We need to be honest here.

The 3 head-to-head debates taking place at the Sport Movement Skill Conference 2026 (6/5-6/6 in MN) are an opportunity to genuinely connect around a shared topic of importance (e.g., gamespeed, the nature of repetition, emphasizing speed in athlete development). We feel that for the debate participants, and the attendees from the community alike, this will bring everyone to the Challenge Point...fostering deep and critical thinking, improves communication, and boosting our own confidence by requiring all to analyze, defend, and critique opposing viewpoints in real-time. S/O to the individuals willing to exist in that crucial space! Will you be one of them?! Just 1 more day until the Early Bird Registration closes. Get committed here or at emergentmvmt.com! eventbrite.com/e/sport-movem…

Sick of the same old coaching conference structure where the thought leader at the front talks at you while reading off of their slides? #SMSC26 is sure to be the opposite of this! Register to join us on June 5-6 in St. Paul, MN! eventbrite.com/e/sport-movem…

It is going down on June 5-6th in St. Paul, MN at the 9th Sport Movement Skill Conference: @TylerYearby vs. @DCSportTraining on The Nature of Repetition! Meet us at the challenge point to see all of the fireworks! eventbrite.com/e/sport-movem…

And if you all want more hip flexor work check out @DCSportTraining Fundamentals of Sprinting | A Complete Biomechanics Course hosted here on SCN Inside you will get access to old school (1960s-1980s) Soviet Sports Review papers as Jeff highlights the work of Dr. Yessis and special exercises that lead to transfer on the field, court, or track Click below to learn more strengthcoachnetwork.com/Spr…

It's all going down! June 5-6th, 2026. St. Paul, Minnesota. At the 9th Sport Movement Skill Conference. @MovementMiyagi v. @Tony_Villani_ @TylerYearby v. @DCSportTraining @thecoachjav v. @pntrack Join us at the challenge point: eventbrite.com/e/sport-movem…

In Japanese, "tsundoku" means collecting books and letting them pile up, not from neglect, but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories.

Repetition after repetition...and/or repetition without repetition?! When trying to learn any skill, chasing development & transfer, what should execution in practice look like? Listen in at #SMSC26 when @TylerYearby & @DCSportTraining square off! eventbrite.com/e/sport-movem…

Addiction to short-form videos reduces brain activity in the frontal lobe weakening the ability to focus.

"Sometimes, truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth."

Christian McCaffrey talks about his offseason training he does daily. It starts from the time he wakes up and ends shortly before he goes to bed Wakes up between 7:00-8:00 Contrast therapy (hot-cold-hot-cold) Pool mobility Running and field work Lifting Pool flush workout Goes to bed between 9:00-10:00 via: @BussinWTB

Have you read the textbook Supertraining before? If not let us help you read this book this year. Click below and we will send you the reading plan that is broken up into easy daily readings Mon-Fri. You will also get a podcast episode with Yosef Johnson and I where we explain the week reading. SCN members you have this reading plan in your inbox - enjoy reading this book. If you have not read this book you NEED to. Too many S&C coaches think they have invented something in S&C when it was in this book YEARS ago. Read this book and understand the science behind what we are doing as S&C coaches - and let Yosef and I be your tour guides through the book. Again click below for this reading plan: strengthcoachnetwork.com/st